bastioned
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But the Germans had not yet solved the Red Army's technique of taking bastioned cities by complex, encircling attacks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Below the window, on one of the bastioned traces on the seaward side of the hotel, waits the big 88.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
The natural criticism of this arrangement is that it combines some of the defects of both the bastioned and polygonal systems without getting the full advantages of either.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
Next the detached forts, begun by the French engineers in 1868 and still unfinished in 1870, can be readily recognized by their bastioned trace.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
At all events the bastioned trace, once fairly developed, held the field in one form or another practically without a rival until near the end of the 18th century.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
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